MR - Fox (Questions For Discussion)

Mr.
Fox by Roald Dahl

Use the questions to each chapter to retell and to discuss the events of the
story. Be careful with details and proper names. Try to be attentive and to
memorize as many details as possible.
Chapter 4. The terrible shovels
1) How did Mr. Fox loose his tail?
2) Why did Mr. Fox need to stop the bleeding?
3) Why wasn’t Mr. Fox sleeping at night? What was he thinking about?
4) What was Mrs. Fox afraid of?
5) What did small foxes ask their mom?
6) What was Mrs. Fox doing?
7) What did Mr. Fox propose to do? What happened next?
8) What did Mrs. Fox said about Mr. Fox to their children?
Chapter 5. The terrible tractors
1) Why were Boggis, Bunce and Bean arguing?
2) What did they do next?
3) Who stayed to look for the foxes? Who went to take the machines?
4) What did the farmers bring to help them?
5) How did the author describe the tractors?
6) How did Mrs. Fox call the sounds they heard?
7) What did Mr. Fox tell his family to do?
Chapter 6. The race
1) What was happening at the beginning of the chapter?
2) Who was faster at digging?
3) What did Mr. Fox say to his family when they saw the metal edge of
the tractor?
4) Retell the conversation between the farmers.
5) What did the farmers say to Mr. Fox?
6) Why did the crowd of people come to the forest?
Chapter 7. We’ll never let him go
1) When did the farmers switch off their machines?
2) Why did they turn off the tractors?
3) What did Bean say to Mr. Fox?
4) What was their next move?
5) Why did they make a camp near the hole?
Chapter 8. The foxes began to starve
1) Where did the farmers put their tents? Why did they do it in such way?
2) What did the farmers eat?
3) Why did the Fox family start to starve?
4) What was the plan of the farmers not to let foxes escape?
5) How did the farmers surround the hill?
6) Retell the conversation between Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox.
Chapter 9. Mr. Fox has a plan
1) What did small kids ask Mr. Fox for?
2) What did Mr. Fox tell his children?
3) What was the idea of Mr. Fox to get the food?
4) Why did Mr. Fox refuse to tell his idea at first?
5) Why didn’t Mrs. Fox dig with her husband and children?
Chapter 10. Boggis’s chicken house number one
1) Why did the foxes go in a very specific direction?
2) Why didn’t Mr. Fox tell his children the direction?
3) Why didn’t foxes know for how long they dug?
4) Why did Mr. Fox whisper “Wooden planks”? Why was it so important?
5) Where were foxes? Who was the first to peek?
6) What did 4 small foxes see when they went out of the tunnel?
7) What did Mr. Fox order not to do his children?
8) What did Mr. Fox do in chicken house number one?
9) What happened at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 11. A surprise for Mrs. Fox
1) How many hens did the foxes bring back to Mrs. Fox?
2) What did Mrs. Fox see when she woke up?
3) What did Mrs. Fox ask Mr. Fox?
4) What was the next plan of Mr. Fox?
Chapter 12. Badger
1) What was happening at the beginning of the chapter?
2) Where were Mr. Fox and his kids going to?
3) Who gave foxes their dinner without realising it?
4) Whom did foxes see through a hole in the tunnel?
5) What did Badger say to Mr. Fox when he saw him?
6) What did a Small Badger tell foxes about the situation in the forest?
7) Who was starving in the forest, except foxes?
8) Did Mr. Fox confess that the farmers were looking for him? What was
the reaction of Badger?
9) What was Mrs. Fox doing at that moment?
10) Why did Mr. Fox invite Badger, Mole, Rabbit, Weasel and their
families to his dinner?
11) What did Mr. Fox ask Badger for? Did Badger agree?
12) What did Mr. Fox tell Small Badger to do?
Chapter 13. Bunce’s giant storehouse
1) What did Badger notice about Mr. Fox?
2) Where did foxes and Badger find themselves?
3) What did they find there?
4) Who went first through a wooden floor?
5) Why did small Foxes and Badger stop and stare? What did they see?
6) Why was Mr. Fox dancing?
7) Why did Mr. Fox order his children and Badger to stop grabbing food?
8) What was the idea of Mr. Fox? Why did he think that they mustn’t take
a lot of food?
9) What did they take first from Bunce’s storehouse?
10) What was in the storehouse?
11) Why did they take carrots and bacon?
12) Why did Mr. Fox propose to borrow two push-carts?
13) What did Mr. Fox order his children to do? Why should they
return to their mother?
Chapter 14. Badger has doubts
1) Which place did they want to visit at last?
2) Who guested the name of the place?
3) What did Badger ask Mr. Fox? What was the answer of Mr. Fox?
4) Retell the conversation between Mr. Fox and Badger about the farmers.
5) Why did Badger and Mr. Fox stop digging? What did they see in front
of them?
6) Why was Mr. Fox happy to see a wall of bricks?
Chapter 15. Bean’s secret cider cellar
1) Whom did Mr. Fox see when he examined the wall?
2) Why did Rat tell Mr. Fox and Badger to go away?
3) What did Mr. Fox say to Rat that he ran away?
4) What did Mr. Fox look for in that cellar? Why did Badger say that the
place was empty? Where were turkeys?
5) What did Badger and the Smallest Fox see on the shelves?
6) What was written on the jars?
7) What did Badger say about cider?
8) What happened to the Smallest Fox when he had a gulp of cider?
9) What were Mr. Fox, the Smallest Fox and Badger doing with cider?
10) What did animals hear when they drank cider?
Chapter 16. The women
1) Who was Mabel? Why was she down in the cellar?
2) What did animals do when they heard Mabel coming down?
3) Where did they hide?
4) What did the women have in her hand?
5) How many jars did Mr. Bean want ? How many did he drink yesterday?
6) What did Mrs. Bean say about Mr. Fox?
7) What did Mr. Bean promise the women (Mabel) as a souvenir?
8) What did Mr. Bean promise the women instead of the tail?
9) How many jars did the women take? What did she smell?
10) What did Mrs. Bean tell the women to do with the rats?
11) What did Rat say to Mr. Fox and Badger?
12) What did Rat call Mr. Fox and Badger?
Chapter 17. The Great Feast
1) What did Badger say about Rat back in the tunnel?
2) Where were Mr. Fox, Badger and the Smallest Fox heading?
3) What were they signing in the tunnel? What was the song about?
4) What did they see when they entered the cave?
5) Who was sitting around the table? Name all characters.
6) What did they have on the table?
7) What did Mr. Fox do when he entered the room?
8) What did all the animals first do?
9) What did Badger say when he raised his glass?
10) What did Mr. Fox say when he raised his glass?
11) What did Mr. Fox propose to do in order not to get killed?
12) Retell the idea of an underground village.
Chapter 18. Still waiting
1) What were Boggis, Bunce and Bean doing while animals were having a
feast?
2) What did they tell each other?
3) What was the last sentences of the story?
4) Did you like the story?

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